picar

From Old Catalan picar, from Vulgar Latin *pīccāre, itself a derivative of Latin pīcus or of onomatopoetic origin.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /piˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

picar (first-person singular present pico, past participle picat)

1. (of an animal or insect) to bite, sting
2. to peck (strike with the beak or bill)
3. to prick, pierce
4. to sting, burn; to be spicy or sour
5. to mince, chop
6. to strike

   picar a la porta ― to knock on the door

   picar de mans ― to clap hands

7. to push (a button)

   han picat al timbre ― someone rang the bell

• “picar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “picar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• pichar

From pico (“beak”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piquei, past participle picado)

1. to mince

   Synonym: pitar

2. to chop

   Hai que picar esa leña. ― Somebody [probably you] should chop that firewood.

3. to bite
4. to sting

   Synonym: aguillar

5. (of milk, wine) to sour, embitter
6. (of the sea) to become choppy
7. to itch
8. (of food) to be hot, spicy
9. to hammer (a blade, for sharpening it)

   Synonym: carabuñar

10. to nibble

• Note: pic- are changed to piqu- before front vowels (e).

• picada
• picadela
• pico
• repicar

• “picar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “picar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “picar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “picar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “picar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *pīccāre, itself a derivative of Latin pīcus or of onomatopoetic origin.

• IPA^(key): /piˈka/

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picar

1. to hit; to strike
2. (of an insect or the like) to sting

   Synonym: fissar

From Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to puncture”), itself from *pīccus (“woodpecker”), variant of Latin pīcus, or of onomatopoeic origin.

• Hyphenation: pi‧car

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piquei, past participle picado)

1. to sting (pierce with a small, sharp point)
2. to punch (to make holes)

   picar o bilhete ― to punch the ticket

3. to mince; to shred (chop into small pieces)

   picar a carne ― to mince the meat

4. (informal) to provoke

From pico (“beak, point”), or maybe from Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”), through a Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to sting, strike”). Compare English pique, French piquer, and Portuguese picar.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/ [piˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pi‧car

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piqué, past participle picado)

1. (intransitive) to itch (to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched)

   una tela que pica ― an itchy fabric

2. to sting
3. to chop
4. to bite
5. (cooking) to mince, to dice
6. to stab; to wound
7. (colloquial) to snack; to nibble; to have a bite

   me apetece picar algo ― I fancy a bite to eat

8. to rot; to decay; to eat away; to rust
9. to pique

   Synonym: despertar

10. to crush (ice)
11. (intransitive) to sting or be pungent to the lips or tongue, be spicy or, of a candy, very sour

    Este chile pica mucho. ― This chili is very hot.

12. (slang, Mexico) to sexually penetrate, fuck
13. (reflexive) to get angry, get annoyed, take offence
14. (reflexive) to turn sour
15. (reflexive, Mexico, with con) to get addicted, fascinated, enraptured
16. (intransitive) to bounce

• → Belizean Creole: pik

• “picar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Compare Italian impiccare.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkar/

picar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to hang, dangle

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.